Judges 18:20
And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
21So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the goods before them.
Cross References
Judges 17:10And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
Isaiah 56:11Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Hosea 4:3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Philippians 3:19whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
2 Peter 2:15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;
Matthew Henry on Judges 18:15-27
Micah's Gods Stolen; Micah's Attempt to Recover His Idols. ( b. c. 1406.) 14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do. 15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him. 16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war,… Read the whole commentary →